What is an API Developer Portal?
Publish and manage your APIs on one central platform. Accelerate your API strategy through coordinated business workflows and code generation.
August 10, 2019 | 2 Min.With an API Developer Portal, you can easily provide your interfaces and interactive documentation to your clients as a self-service.
Interface providers are typically organizations or companies that share their products or data through interfaces with other parties. These can be new customers, existing business partners, software developers or projects that benefit from process automation.
An API portal shares the interfaces on a central platform. Instead of maintaining interfaces decentrally in development teams or departments, the APIs are merged in the API catalog and can be effectively managed and published there.
The API Explorer very effectively displays the functions and data offered by an interface. The integrated business processes for the API Portal enable a smooth cooperation with your customers and their developers. The portal allows developers to obtain information about the interfaces, retrieve the functionalities and test interfaces directly through the Try Out function. The developer himself can request access to an API using the self-service function.
Automatic code generation is an important acceleration factor! The portal generates a full-fledged API client on demand! The costly development of an API client is thus completely eliminated. With the time saved, you can bring your services to the market much faster.
The functions of an API Developer Portal include among others:
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Easy administration in the API catalog
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Register applications
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Request consumer access for an API
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Revoke API access
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Provide interactive API documentation
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API Try-out function
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Automatic code generation of API clients
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Central user rights and roles
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Business Workflows
The API Portal accelerates you in implementing your API strategy. In addition to saving time, your APIs reach a significantly higher market reach and become visible to potential consumers.